How the E.U.’s Migrant Crisis Reached the Streets of Brussels<br />Europe said that What is new,<br />French said that I am afraid here,<br />When police officers arrested several Sudanese migrants, including three minors, around the Gare du Nord last year, Mr. Francken, the state secretary for asylum policy, described<br />the operation on Facebook as a "cleanup." After a public outcry condemning the remark as xenophobic, he offered his apologies to the prime minister, who did not accept them.<br />, the shelter organizer, agreed that "certain officers in certain towns, not all police" could be "pretty violent with migrants."<br />"We very regularly have people who enter with wounds, even bites from police dogs," he said. that Mr. Kassou<br />Very few of the Sudanese people who have recently arrived in Brussels seem to be planning to stay: Sudan<br />was not among the top 10 countries of origin for those applying for asylum in Belgium last month.<br />At the Gare du Nord, Mr. Khater and several fellow travelers showed wounds and scars that they said had been inflicted by the Belgian police.<br />There have been several demonstrations against the government policies,<br />and about 3,000 people formed a human chain around migrants at the Gare du Nord last month to prevent a police raid.<br />I am looking for a life," said Mr. Khater, 31, who fled the violence-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur a year ago.
